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authorization, etc.

認可等(にんかとう)

In Article 54, an authorization, approval or certification under this Act, to which the Prime Minister (内閣総理大臣) may attach conditions and later change them.

public notice matters

公示事項(こうじじこう)

The particulars made public when the person who is to receive a payment order for an administrative monetary penalty (課徴金納付命令) cannot be found: that person's name (for a corporation, its name and its representative's name), where and by when to submit the written explanation (弁明書) (or, where the explanation is to be given orally, that fact and when and where to appear), and that the Prime Minister will hand the person at any time a document setting out what the notice under Article 15, paragraph (1) must state.

Business Office, etc.

事務所等(じむしょとう)

In Article 37-2, a real estate broker's business office (事務所) or another place of a kind set by an Order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and Cabinet Office Order (国土交通省令・内閣府令); an offer or contract made anywhere else can be withdrawn or cancelled in writing under that Article.

contract amount

契約金額(けいやくきんがく)

In Article 31-2, the amount that, under a contract a financial instruments business operator has concluded and notified to the Prime Minister, is to be deposited for it as business security deposit (営業保証金) on the Prime Minister's order; while the contract is in effect, the operator need not itself deposit that amount.

underwriting activities

引受業務(ひきうけぎょうむ)

In the section on foreign securities firms, the part of a foreign securities firm's (外国証券業者) underwriting business that it may carry on in Japan with the Prime Minister's permission: taking part in an underwriting contract (元引受契約) and other acts a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies.

register

登録原簿(とうろくげんぼ)

The sales representative register (外務員登録原簿), kept at a place a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies, in which a financial instruments business operator, etc. (金融商品取引業者等) must register the name, date of birth and other particulars of each of its officers and employees who carry on for it the acts listed in Article 64, paragraph (1).

applicant, etc.

申請者等(しんせいしゃとう)

In Article 52-18, a company that has applied for authorization under Article 52-17, paragraph (1) or the proviso to paragraph (3) of that Article, or the company to be incorporated with that authorization.

when issued transaction

発行日取引(はっこうびとりひき)

In Article 37-2, paragraph (2), items (i) and (ii), a when issued transaction as referred to in Article 60-2, paragraph (2) of the Income Tax Act: buying or selling securities before they are issued, of a kind a Ministry of Finance Order (財務省令) specifies.

acting representative

職務代行者(しょくむだいこうしゃ)

A person the Prime Minister appoints, where needed, to act for the time being in place of the representative in Japan of a foreign corporation — a specified non-financial information audit certification provider (特定非財務情報監査証明業者), an authorized firm for on-exchange transactions (取引所取引許可業者), a financial instruments business operator, etc. (金融商品取引業者等), a credit rating agency (信用格付業者) or an investment management-related business trustee (投資運用関係業務受託業者) — when that representative is absent.

foreign bank, etc.

外国銀行等(がいこくぎんこうとう)

In Article 4, paragraph (3), a person carrying on banking business in a foreign country under foreign laws and regulations, including persons with a special relationship to it that a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, but not a bank, etc. (銀行等).

foreign enforcement authority

外国執行当局(がいこくしっこうとうきょく)

A foreign authority that enforces foreign laws and regulations equivalent to this Act, to which the Prime Minister may give information that helps it perform duties equivalent to those under this Act.

funds transfer service provider

資金移動業者(しきんいどうぎょうしゃ)

In Article 28, paragraph (1) and Article 32, paragraph (4), item (i), the specified business operators (特定事業者) listed in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (xxxi): funds transfer service providers as defined in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Payment Services Act, that is, persons registered under Article 37 of that Act.

certified zone plan

認定区域計画(にんていくいきけいかく)

A certified zone plan as defined in Article 11, paragraph (1) of the National Strategic Special Zones Act, which names a corporation as the body carrying out a specified project (特定事業) in a national strategic special zone (国家戦略特別区域).

driving skills assessment

運転技能検査(うんてんぎのうけんさ)

In Article 97-2, paragraph (1), item (iii) and Article 112, paragraph (1), item (v)-4, a test of the skills needed to drive large, mid-sized, semi-mid-sized or standard motor vehicles (普通自動車等) that a public safety commission (公安委員会) gives as a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) provides.

licensing processes

免許関係事務(めんきょかんけいじむ)

The work on driving licenses under Chapter VI that a public safety commission (公安委員会) may entrust to a corporation a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) names, other than refusing or withholding licenses, setting and changing their conditions, judging test and fitness screening results, revoking and suspending licenses, and the other work a Cabinet Order (政令) sets.

number of share certificates, etc. held

保有株券等の数(ほゆうかぶけんとうのかず)

In Article 27-23, paragraphs (4) and (6), the number of share certificates, etc. (株券等) a holder holds (leaving out treasury shares and others a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) excludes), less those of the same issuer that the holder must deliver because it transferred them through a margin transaction (信用取引) or another method that Order specifies.

certified local government

認定地方公共団体(にんていちほうこうきょうだんたい)

A certified local government as defined in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Local Revitalization Act, which has drawn up a certified regional revitalization plan (認定地域再生計画) and carries out a town, people and job creation donation project (まち・ひと・しごと創生寄附活用事業) to which a corporation's donation earns the tax credit in Article 42-12-2.

rights that must be indicated on securities

有価証券表示権利(ゆうかしょうけんひょうじけんり)

In Article 2, paragraphs (2) and (3), the rights that are to be shown on the securities listed in Article 2, paragraph (1) (for the kinds in its items (xvi) and (xix) to (xxi), only those a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) sets, and less certain trust-type rights a Cabinet Order (政令) excludes), which are deemed to be those securities even where no certificate showing them has been issued.

internal control report, etc.

内部統制報告書等(ないぶとうせいほうこくしょとう)

In Article 24, paragraphs (8), (9) and (11) to (13) as Article 24-4-4, paragraph (6) applies them to a reporting foreign company (報告書提出外国会社), the internal control report (内部統制報告書) under Article 24-4-4, paragraph (1) or (2) and the documents that paragraph (4) of that Article requires to be attached to it.

operation of a commodity market

商品市場開設業務(しょうひんしじょうかいせつぎょうむ)

The business of operating a market needed for commodity futures transactions (商品先物取引), including business incidental to it.